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==Personal life and family== Han, whose mother later became a follower of [[Sun Myung Moon]], was born on February 10, 1943.<ref name="lewis">{{Cite book |last=Beverly |first=James A. |title=Controversial New Religions |title-link=Controversial New Religions |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-19-515682-9 |editor-last=Lewis |editor-first=James R. |editor-link=James R. Lewis (scholar) |edition=1st |location=New York |language=en |chapter=Spirit Revelation and the Unification Church |editor-last2=Petersen |editor-first2=Jesper Aagaard |pages=43β44, 48β49}}</ref> Han attended an all-girls high school in Korea but did not go on to college. She speaks Japanese and English as well as Korean.<ref name="moon">{{cite book | last =Moon | first=Sun Myung | title =As a Peace-Loving Global Citizen | publisher =Gimm-Young Publishers | year =2009 | isbn = 978-0-7166-0299-6}}</ref>{{Clarify|reason=Does this mean "She speaks Japanese and English at an equal skill level to her Korean" or does it simply mean "She speaks Japanese, English, and Korean"? If the latter, the grammar should be fixed.|date=March 2023}} In April 1960, at the age of 17, Han, by then a member of the Unification Church,<ref name="Introvigne" /> married 40 year-old Moon.<ref name="cowan">{{cite book | last1 =Cowan | first1 =Douglas E. |first2=David G. |last2=Bromley | title =Cults and New Religions: A Brief History (Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion) | publisher =Blackwell Pub. | year =2007 | pages =96, 103 | isbn = 978-1-4051-6127-5}}</ref><ref name="lifeandtimes">{{cite news |title =Life and times | work =[[The Guardian]] | date =April 26, 2008 }}</ref> Han has 14 children, 10 of whom are still living,<ref name="killed"/> and as of 2011 has 38 grandchildren.<ref name="moontalks">{{Cite web |date=2011 |title=Sun Myung Moon's Family |url=http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Talks/Moon-Family/MoonFamNames-110000.htm |website=www.Tparents.org}}</ref> On July 19, 2008, Han along with her husband and 14 others, including several of their children and grandchildren, were slightly injured when a [[Sikorsky S-92]] helicopter owned by the movement crashed during an emergency landing and burst into flames in [[Gapyeong]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/20/asia/AS-SKorea-Helicopter-Crash.php|title=Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon released from hospital after helicopter crash - International Herald Tribune|website=www.iht.com}}</ref><ref>[http://tworiversvip.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=243&task=videodirectlink&id=100 Account of crash by the Moons' youngest son] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013111247/http://tworiversvip.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&Itemid=243&task=videodirectlink&id=100 |date=October 13, 2008 }}</ref> Han and all 15 others were treated at the nearby Unification Church-affiliated Cheongshim Hospital.<ref>[http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/19/asia/AS-SKorea-Helicopter-Crash.php Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, 15 others injured in helicopter crash] Herald Tribune, July 19, 2008</ref>
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